Alaska’s Bristol Bay will have strong sockeye returns for years, expert predicts
'I'm quite optimistic that there's at least 100, maybe 200 years of warming left in the Bristol Bay systems before we have a lot of problems with migrating fish' -- Daniel Schindler
Official responds to frustrations over NOAA’s ‘silence’ on Washington net-pen ban
Industry executives voiced concerns over NOAA's perceived silence in the discussions on the ban in the US state of Washington of commercial net-pen finfish farming
OBI tapped to supply $300,000 worth of pink salmon in aid to Ukraine
OBI Seafoods was awarded the contract to produce the pink salmon cans following an 'established procurement process', said the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
Study finds 125 serious winch injuries in 20 years of Alaska commercial fishing
Winches were responsible for at least 125 serious injuries, including everything from amputated fingers to skull fractures, in Alaska's fishing industry between 2000 and 2020
Copper River salmon marketing group adds staffers
'Hiring marketing professionals can be challenging in our small coastal community' -- Christa Hoover, Copper River Prince William Sound Marketing Association
US seafood imports broke record in 2022, grew trade deficit
Despite efforts to increase consumption of domestically produced seafood and boost exports, the US is going the other way -- setting an all-time record for seafood imports in 2022
High Liner, Gorton’s, others at odds with US pollock sector over tariff exemptions
'The current Alaska pollock terms of trade between the [US] on the one hand and Russia and China on the other are indefensible' -- At-sea Processors Association and Pacific Seafood Processors Association
GSMC panel predicts 1% Atlantic salmon supply growth in 2023 as ‘shortage’ fears build
The organization predicts that global Atlantic salmon supply will rise by 1% to 2.901 million metic tons, whole fish equivalent, in 2023
As forecasts come in, Alaska harvesters look to a busy 2023
Guest columnist Laine Welch, a longtime Alaska fisheries journalist, takes a look at what 2023 is expected to bring for the US state's fisheries
US Congress sends omnibus to Biden with lobster, seafood marketing, fishery disaster provisions
HR 2617 now heads to president Joe Biden's desk for a signature, which is expected later on Friday (Dec.23)